Internet
Neighborhood® v2.4 Release Notes
© Copyright 1996-1998 KnoWareÖ, Inc., All rights
reserved.
December 21, 1998
This document is intended to provide up-to-date or late-breaking information
about the current release of Internet Neighborhood® from KnoWareÖ,
Inc. For more information about common questions and solutions to
any issues you might have with Internet Neighborhood, visit our website
at http://www.knowareinc.com.
Contents
Installing Internet Neighborhood
Entering your Serial Number/Registration Code
New Features, Fixes and Changes
Known Problems
Purchasing Internet Neighborhood
Uninstalling Internet Neighborhood
Installing Internet Neighborhood
To install Internet Neighborhood, you need to:
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Download the latest official release of Internet Neighborhood from our
website at http://www.knowareinc.com/in32.html.
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Unzip IN32.ZIP into a temporary folder on your computer.
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Double-click on the setup.exe program which is extracted from the
zipfile.
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Follow the installation instructions to install Internet Neighborhood on
your computer. NOTE: Always read the release notes for the latest information
about Internet Neighborhood!
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Restart Windows 95. This is necessary so that Internet Neighborhood can
register itself with the operating system.
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You are now ready to run Internet Neighborhood; double-click on the desktop
icon to begin setting up ftp-sites.
Entering your Serial Number/Registration
Code
In order to unlock the full functionality of Internet Neighborhood,
you are required to purchase a license for the program. If you would like
to purchase an Internet Neighborhood license, click here.
Once you have purchased a license for Internet Neighborhood, you will receive
a Serial Number, also refered to as a Registration
Code. To enter your Serial Number into Internet Neighborhood,
you need to:
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Double-click on the Internet Neighborhood icon on your desktop.
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Once Internet Neighborhood launches, select Help from the
main menu.
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Under the Help menu, select About Internet Neighborhood.
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When the Internet Neighborhood About Box appears, click on the Unlock
button.
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Enter your Internet Neighborhood Serial Number into the dialog box and
click OK.
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If you have entered your serial number correctly, you will receive a Congratulations!
message. If you entered it incorrectly, you will receive an Invalid
Serial Number message.
Once you have entered the correct serial number, Internet Neighborhood
will remember it and you should not need to enter it again.
NOTE: Keep your Internet Neighborhood Serial Number in a safe place,
since you will need it for technical support and in the event that you
need to reinstall the program.
New Features, Fixes and Changes
What's New in this Release (since v2.0)?
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Added a Print command for printing of remote documents on the local
default printer. (v2.3)
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Added a 'connection saver' feature which forces IN to use only 1 connection
per FTP site. (v2.3)
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Added more support for Unix L8 variants. (v2.3)
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Added the URL to the title of the Username, Password and Account Name dialog
boxes which are displayed when IN prompts for this information during the
initiation of connection. (v2.3)
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Added the ability to configure the placement of the Internet Neighborhood
desktop icon. (v2.2)
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Added support for regional date/time settings. IN now displays dates/times
in the format which is configured in the 'Regional Settings' applet of
Control Panel. (v2.10)
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Added support for dates in Finnish format. (v2.02)
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Reworked the file transfer manager to incorporate multiple upload and download
threads. This vastly improved file transfer performance. (v2.01)
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Added support for Windows98!
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Added an all new FTP Site Wizard. The new FTP Site Wizard is a single page.
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Added the ability to apply global configuration settings to all currently
defined FTP Sites.
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Added a 'Change Directory' feature.
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Added a 'View Welcome Message' feature.
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Added the ability to 'browse' for the Default Transfer Directory.
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Added support for WinGate proxy servers.
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Added support for Checkpoint firewalls.
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Added support for VM/CMS systems (preliminary).
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Added support for for VAX/VMS A5.5 systems.
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Added support for FTP Software's FTP server.
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Added <CTRL-A> support to select all items in a listview.
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Reworked the Internet Neighborhood Properties and added the ability to
configure most settings on a per-site basis.
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Reworked the listview display so that refreshes are 'smoother'.
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Reworked the Directory Caching mechanism.
What's Fixed in this Release (since v2.0)?
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Fixed bug which was preventing IN from connecting to non-port 21 servers
when using firewalls. (v2.4)
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Fixed the toolbar 'hint' for Large Icons which mistakenly said 'Copy'.
(v2.3)
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Fixed bug which was preventing the column widths from being saved when
you double-clicked on a column divider to adjust the column width. (v2.2)
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Fixed bug in VAX/VMS path parsing. (v2.10)
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Fixed bug in APPLESHARE IP path parsing problem too. (v2.10)
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Fixed bug which was prventing multiple files from being downloaded via
a 'multi-file' drag-drop operation. The first file was downloaded, but
not the subsequent files. (v2.10)
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Fixed bug which was hanging file transfers if you canceled a transfer but
did not cancel the entire batch. (v2.10)
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Fixed memory leak in drag-drop uploads. (v2.02)
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Fixed bug which would cause Explorer to crash after an upload. (v2.02)
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Fixed bug in the 'Retry Connection' window which was causing the logon
failure message to be truncated. (v2.01)
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Fixed bug in the 'Change Permissions' code which was trashing memory and
thus causing IN to hang periodically when multiple files were selected.
(v2.01)
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Fixed bug in the menuing system which was preventing the menus from being
updated when the selection in the listview changed. (v2.01)
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Fixed the Index Files feature.
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Fixed the Welcome Message dialog box.
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Fixed bug in the 'New Folder' code which was causing the directory to be
created under the wrong parent.
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Fixed bug in the password encryption algorithm which was trashing quote
(') characters.
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Fixed bug in the parsing of a PWD command on certain servers.
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Fixed bug which was trashing memory when deleting a complete folder containing
files.
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Fixed bug which was incorrectly calculating the remote path when the Initial
Remote Directory was specified as a relative path (not starting with a
/)
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Fixed bug which was incorrectly displaying an error message when changing
the permissions of multiple files.
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Fixed bug on MS ftp servers when the last character was a space. this prevented
files from getting deleted.
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Fixed many a clipboard copy/paste/dragdrop bug.
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Fixed bug which was causing dates to be sorted incorrectly on servers
which displayed items in a NT v3.51 DOS style.
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Fixed bug which was causing DELE to fail on certain servers when specifying
the full directory path.
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Fixed bug which was causing new folders to periodically be created incorrectly.
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Fixed bug which was preventing the error message box from being displayed
when the deletion of a file failed.
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Fixed bug which was allowing you to drop from a remote site back onto another
remote site. This caused the creation of a phantom directory tree on the
remote server.
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Fixed bug which was causing dates to be sorted incorrectly on servers which
displayed items in a NT v3.51 DOS style.
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Finally fixed the 'wait' cursor bug. the cursor is now restored upon completion
of an action.
Known Problems
The is a list of known issues. These are either problems with Internet
Neighborhood, or limitations of the current version.
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You cannot rename anything from within the treeview pane; All renaming
needs to be performed by right-clicking on the selected item in the listview
pane, then choose the command from the context menu.
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You cannot currently copy-paste an FTP-Site definition.
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The following system types are not currently supported. VM, MVS, VOS, and
TANDEM.
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You cannot move/copy/drag-drop files between ftp sites.
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You cannot move/copy/drag-drop files between directories on a single ftp-site.
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When dragging and dropping onto a remote folder in the treeview
pane of Explorer, the listview pane is not always being updated/refreshed
correctly. To refresh it, right click in the listview pane and select
Refresh.
Purchasing Internet Neighborhood
Internet Neighborhood can be purchased directly from KnoWare, Inc.,
or on-line from one of our distributors. For more information concerning
pricing and availability, visit our website at http://www.knowareinc.com/buyit.html.
Uninstalling Internet Neighborhood
As with any program, it is required that Internet Neighborhood not
be resident in memory during the un-installation process. So, to insure
that Internet Neighborhood is unstalled completely, the following steps
will need to be performed.
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Restart Windows95/NT. This will ensure that Internet Neighborhood has been
removed from memory. If Internet Neighborhood is resident in memory during
the un-install process, the process will fail.
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Once Windows has restarted, click Start then Settings
followed by Control Panel.
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In the Control Panel program group, double-click on the Add/Remove
Programs icon.
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Find the entry labeled Internet Neighborhood and double-click
it.
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Choose Yes to uninstall Internet Neighborhood from your machine.
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Once Internet Neighborhood has been uninstalled, you may need to restart
Windows95/NT again so that the icon will be removed from your desktop.
If Internet Neighborhood does not uninstall, you can download the Internet
Neighborhood Icon Remover which will remove IN from the desktop (and
the system registry).